New raffle devices this fall for Ohio veterans posts

6:44 AM,
Jul. 21, 2014

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Lottery officials say 700 next-generation electronic raffle machines will be installed at Ohio veterans' posts and fraternal organizations in September and probably be in operation by the following month.

About 200 facilities will get the charitable games that the Ohio Lottery Commission was cleared to buy after the attorney general declared existing raffle machines unconstitutional last year, The Columbus Dispatch reported.

A state legislative panel decided earlier this year that the lottery commission could spend $22.5 million for 1,200 new machines, with 60 percent of ...